Rue de la Tour

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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '  N , 2 ° 17'  E

Rue de la Tour
location
Arrondissement 16.
quarter Muette
Beginning Place de Costa Rica
The End 1, Place Tattegrain
morphology
length 1050 m
width 15 m
history
Emergence before 1730
Original names Chemin des Moines
Rue du Moulin-de-la-Tour
Coding
Paris 9347

The Rue de la Tour is a street in the 16th arrondissement of Paris .

location

The street runs as a one-way street from Place de Costa Rica in a westerly direction to Place Tattegrain .

Name origin

The street name comes from the "Moulin de la Tour de Passy" ( German  tower mill of Passy ). The tower existed until 1810 and is said to have served Philip IV as a «manoir» .

history

This street in the former municipality of Passy is named as early as 1605 and can be discovered on a Plan de Roussel .

The path was upgraded to a street in the 18th century and connects the Rue de Passy with the Rue de la Pompe under the name “Rue du Moulin-de-la-Tour”. because here a mill was built on a former tower.

Attractions

  • No. 8: Jean Jaurès lived here until 1899.
  • No. 73: Hôtel particulier or City Palace: The once pretty residence in the French Rococo style ( Louis-Quinze ) is laid out in the shape of a horseshoe and is surrounded by a spacious garden bordered by Rue Desbordes-Valmore .
  • No. 86: The building on the said tower is now a Catholic private school: the Institut de la Tour , a collège et lycée privés catholiques, opened in 1901 for the sisters of Sainte Clotilde . Even Brigitte Bardot was a student of this school.
  • No. 83: Villa Guibert , named after one of its previous owners. The poet Jean Richepin (1849–1926) spent part of his life here.
  • No. 89: Birthplace of the fighter pilot Georges Guynemer (1894–1917), a commemorative plaque indicates.
  • No. 96: Villa de la Tour , where the socialist politician Jean Jaurès (1859–1914) lived during the last years of his life. After his murder in the Café du Croissant , his body was laid out there for a few days.

  • Memorial plaque to the poet
    Jean Richepin , no.85

  • Commemorative plaque for the fighter pilot
    Georges Guynemer , No. 89

  • The private road "Villa de la Tour" is closed to unauthorized persons .

  • Roof gardens over
    2 floors, No. 131

  • Stylistic house facade,
    No. 117

The street in the film

In the film by Ernst Lubitsch Engel with Marlene Dietrich , the first and last scenes take place in a fictional house 314, Rue de la Tour.

Web links

Commons : Rue de la Tour  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ File: Passy sur carte Roussel de 1730.png
  2. ↑ http://www.institutdelatour.com/
  3. ↑ Brigitte Bardot, Interview by Caroline Pigozzi , “Bardot s'en va toujours en guerre… pour les animaux”, Paris Match , January 18 to 24, 2018, pp. 76–83
  4. ^ Philippe Siguret, Bertrand Lemoine : Vie et historie du XVIe arrondissement (Editions Hervas, Paris 1991), pp. 128f
  5. ↑ www.terresdecrivains.com